| Enjoy this newsletter? Forward it to someone else who'd like it! If this email was forwarded to you, sign up here. Did you hear something fact-checkable? Send it here; we'll check it out. Democratic senator attacks his Pennsylvania rival with an invented claim The Senate race between Bob Casey, the Democratic incumbent, and former hedge fund manager Dave McCormick, a Republican, is one of the closest in the nation and could determine control of the chamber. In a new television ad, Casey walks out of a bank vault as he complains that McCormick's "billionaire buddies" have spent $150 million attacking him. Then he does something unusual — he directly attacks McCormick as having "made clear he'll slash your Medicare and Social Security and cut Medicaid for nursing home care." Usually, negative ads use voice-overs or text to make incendiary claims as a way to shield the candidate from possible fact checks. When Casey utters this line, the ad shows images of elderly people, and the small text citation reads "Americans for Tax Fairness, March 3, 2023." Our antenna went up. The Fact Checker has covered budget and tax policy in Washington for more than three decades and had never heard of this group. Moreover, McCormick officially announced he was running for the Senate on Sept. 21, 2023 — so how would a report from six months earlier be relevant? It turned out this accusation was made up. To read the full fact check and learn the Pinocchio rating, click the link below. | 
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